Amendment adds veteran- and women- owned businesses to the groups that will receive outreach under the Small Business Lending Fund established by the bill; adds veteran-owned businesses to those businesses that should receive consideration in the Fund; adds veterans to the study on lending assistance; and requires the study to report not just on the number of loans made to women-, veteran- and minority-owned businesses, but the percent of loans that go to them as a part of the program.

Purpose:

An amendment numbered 1 printed in part C of House Report 111-506 to add veteran- and women- owned businesses to the groups that will receive outreach under the Small Business Lending Fund established by the bill. It adds veteran-owned businesses to those businesses that should receive consideration in the Fund, adds veterans to the study on lending assistance, and requires the study to report not just on the number of loans made to women-, veteran- and minority-owned businesses, but the percent of loans that go to them as a part of the program.